You know those touristy “Mystery Spots” you see scattered throughout the country? You know the type—balls roll uphill, people are able to stand on ceilings, trees grow in a bizarre fashion said to be caused by gravitational anomalies. Cause of the anomalies are unknown but speculations range from buried UFO’s to “carbon dioxide permeating from the earth” to a magma vortex. Mysterious indeed.
Well, I’ve made a startling discovery in our new home. There is a Mystery Spot in our bathroom. I had my suspicions but now that we’ve been in the house for about a month I feel I can make this bold statement with certainty. Could there be a dielectric biocosmic radiation eminating from the bathroom? And while I haven’t completely ruled out the carbon dioxide angle, I’m quite certain that’s not the gas we’re dealing with in there.
I first observed the phenomena when I was doing laundry. Despite a completely logical, clearly-laid-out system, the kids’ clothes end up in the darnest place in the bathroom. I’ve found them wadded up behind the toilet, stuffed in corners and scattered about the shelves despite the strategic placement of a laundry hamper. It defies comprehension.
I’ve experimented with several locations for the hamper….right next to the tub….in the middle of the floor….in front of the washer…but yet each time a child showers, the clothes end up anywhere but the hamper. I’ve tried big hampers. Little hampers. Colored hampers. I even thought about installing neon signs with arrows declaring and pointing, “DIRTY CLOTHES HERE!” The kids insist they are indeed putting their clothes in the hamper so I am forced to admit there is a force at work here beyond the boundaries of science to describe.
I wanted to mount the hamper on the wall at a 45 degree angle to see if I could work with the mysterious force but Jay stopped me. Scientific study always have a few critics. And he refused to dig the compass out to see if it would gyrate wildly.
Other manifestations of this force include the inability of anyone (besides me) to see an empty toilet paper holder or the globs of toothpaste in the sink. Curious very curious.
The good side of all this is that perhaps this could be the supplement to our income I’ve been looking for!
Pretty soon, I can have tour buses of schoolchildren pulling up to our home to tour! Billboards dotting the highways for miles around directing them to my bathroom! Frommer’s Travel Guides will list our humble abode as a “Must see” place for Nashville!
But then again, maybe not. The amount of dirty laundry in there could make it kinda hard to see.
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